About 46 years after NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched on an epic journey to explore space, the probes’ antique hardware continues to receive tweaks from afar. One update, a software fix, ought ...
A NASA spacecraft launched almost five decades ago is once again sending data back to scientists after going dark last year, the space agency reported this week. In an April 22 press release, NASA ...
NASA Voyager mission engineers are preparing a software patch that will allow the thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar probes to continue operating for another five years, keeping the ...
NASA has started the painstaking process of updating the software on two of its spacecraft. This would be a tricky operation no matter the mission, but it's all the more perilous with the Voyager ...
The furthest human spacecraft from earth—Voyager 1 and 2—are still getting software updates more than 12 billion miles away, which should help keep the probes operational for many years to come.
NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft have been through a lot: nearly 50 years of space travel and an astonishing 15 billion miles. Heck, they weren’t even designed to go this far, since they were only ...
NASA engineers are implementing measures to ensure that the Voyager spacecraft continue their interstellar exploration for several more years. One concern being addressed is the accumulation of fuel ...
For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity's most distant ...